By Laikwan Pang
ISBN-10: 0415352010
ISBN-13: 9780415352017
ISBN-10: 0415426898
ISBN-13: 9780415426893
This is a succint and well-written ebook introducing a really interdisciplinary method of the examine of copyright and comparable matters in modern pop culture when it comes to the present improvement of Asian cinema, and questions how copyright is appropriated to control tradition. It examines the various meanings and practices referring to "copying" in cinema, demonstrating the dynamics among globalization’s wish for cultural keep an eye on and cinema’s personal resistance to such manipulation.
Focusing at the cinema of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and picture 'piracy' in those nations, the e-book argues that principles of cultural possession and copyright will not be as simple as they could first and foremost look, and that copyright is used as a method during which cultural keep an eye on is exercised by means of the cultural sizeable enterprise of the dominant power.
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